Cowboys Players Snubbed for NFL Awards: Who Got Robbed?

Dak Prescott

We have to start with the man who touches the ball first for the Cowboys on every offensive play.

He's the leader of the offense and one of the leaders of the entire team.

Prescott was snubbed from not only one but two awards this season.

FedEx Air Player of the Year

The FedEx Air Player of the Week award is a weekly award where voting takes place on the official NFL social media accounts.

It's essentially a social media award only so those who hate Dak Prescott for no reason will laugh that I'm even bringing it up.

I just couldn't let the blatant ignorance go by without pointing it out.

Prescott won this weekly award four times this season, more than any other individual quarterback.

Before the results were released, the NFL Twitter/X account ran four different polls of which Prescott won every single one of them.

Brock Purdy won the award and whoever runs the NFL Twitter/X account has since deleted the other four polls showing Prescott as the fan-voted winner.

They couldn't make their hate any more obvious.

NFL MVP

Now we move on to a more official and respected award, the Associated Press NFL MVP award.

I'm not by any means saying Prescott should have been a lock to win this award, but there is an argument he shouldn't have lost it to Lamar Jackson.

The 2023 version of Dak Prescott is the best version we have ever seen on the field and I believe he was truly deserving of the MVP award.

Prescott finished near the top of the league in nearly every major metric, and finished better than Jackson in the following categories:

• Completion percentage
• Passing yards
• Yards per attempt
• Touchdowns
• Big-time throws
• QB Rating

Jackson bested Prescott by throwing two fewer interceptions, but he also threw 12 fewer touchdowns.

The real difference is Jackson took his team two rounds further in the playoffs but ended up with the same result as Prescott.

DaRon Bland

DaRon Bland just completed his second season of NFL football, finishing his first two seasons with 14 total interceptions playing both inside and outside of the formation.

The prospect of a defensive backfield with Bland on one side and Trevon Diggs locking down the other boundary is a reason for excitement.

This year I believe Bland was snubbed out of the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award.

Cowboys' superstar EDGE Micah Parsons also received votes for this award, but I don't feel he deserved it more than Bland.

It was given instead to Myles Garrett of Cleveland.

Garrett, a Texas native, is a hell of a player so I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it.

I'm simply saying I believe CB DaRon Bland of the Dallas Cowboys deserved it more for what he was able to accomplish.

Bland led the entire NFL with nine interceptions, but the real stat to put him over the top is the NFL-record five that he was able to return for touchdowns.

The second-year cornerback set the record during a Thanksgiving blowout of the Commanders.

Setting the record with seven games left in the season is an accomplishment in itself.

The NFL world may never see what Bland accomplished again.

Surely we will see Myles Garrett's 14.0 sacks in a season many times over after this.